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"I Ain’t Afraid of No Map" - Ghost Mappers

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 01/12/2025 Ă  09:49
The ghost of the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin is said to visit his uncle’s grave in St Mary the Virgin Church in London. He is just one of three spirits believed to haunt the churchyard, which is also visited by a grey lady searching for her dead husband, and a skeletal figure pushing a cart with an empty coffin - forever hunting for his wife, whose body was stolen by grave robbers.This is
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Mapping the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 29/11/2025 Ă  09:43
All of us have, at some time or another, fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. You begin with the noble intention of looking up a single topic, only to find yourself tumbling through an unplanned journey of blue hyperlinks.Start with Geradus Mercator, follow a link to Antwerp, hop over to the Tomorrowland festival, and before you know it you’re reading about Metallica. What began
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Back to Black

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 28/11/2025 Ă  17:24
Back to Black Today’s #30DayMapChallenge is Black. For this challenge I decided to create a map that makes use of and demonstrates one of MapLibre’s most powerful features: the ability to programmatically restyle map layers in real time. My Back to Black map itself isn’t designed to be practical or analytical in itself - it’s simply an exploration of how to change a map's style in
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Deadly Rivers in the Sky

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 28/11/2025 Ă  09:51
The Washington Post reports that rising global temperatures are leading to ever more extreme rainfall around the world. Since the 1990s global heating has dramatically increased the amount and movement of water vapor in the Earth’s atmosphere , in some regions by more than 15 percent. These “invisible rivers” of vapor act like atmospheric fire hoses: and when they encounter disturbances such as
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The McGritter Tracker is Back!

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 27/11/2025 Ă  09:44
By 6:00 AM this morning, Skate Bush could already been seen trundling up that hill, and Sled Zeppelin was hard at work sanding the stairway to Leven.Yes, Traffic Scotland’s Gritter Tracker is back in action - your one-stop, salt-powered, pun-splattered window into the heroic world of gritters battling Scotland’s icy roads.The Gritter Tracker map shows the live positions of Scotland's
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The History of the World Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 26/11/2025 Ă  10:16
It has been a boom week for Wikipedia-sourced history maps. In the last five days I've reviewed Landnotes & Globe of History, and I’ve now stumbled on another Wikipedia based history map - the Time Travel App.Time-Travel App is a world history explorer that uses Mapbox, OpenHistoricalMap, and data from Wikipedia to let you browse historical events, important people, cultural realms, and even
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Blockbusters USA

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 25/11/2025 Ă  17:19
Population Paths Day 25 of the #30DayMapChallenge is Hexagons! In response I've created a little hex-map puzzle game. The aim of Population Paths is to create a continuous path from the West Coast to the East Coast, one state at a time by correctly guessing whether each neighboring state has a higher or lower population than the one you’re currently standing on. How to Play You begin
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Mapping the Property Tax Divide

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 25/11/2025 Ă  09:31
Most U.S. municipalities rely on property taxes to fund public services. This means that the amount of taxable wealth within each city boundary can create stark inequalities - even between neighboring communities. Wealthy municipalities are able to raise far more revenue than places with lower-value property, allowing affluent enclaves to spend generously while less affluent communities -
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A Literal Map of America

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 24/11/2025 Ă  18:24
Literal Map of America Today’s #30DayMapChallenge theme is Places and their names. My Literal Map of America reveals the literal meaning behind every U.S. state name (hover over any state on the map and you can reveal its real name). Many of the states have names that reflect physical landscapes, others describe people or tribes, and several are named for royalty. Wisconsin comes from a
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How Much Does it Cost to Live in Every U.S. County?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 24/11/2025 Ă  09:23
The Economic Policy Institute has mapped out how much income a typical family of four (two adults and two children) needs to achieve a “modest yet adequate standard of living” in counties across the United States. The EPI's Family Budget Map breaks down costs into seven essential categories: housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.Load the map, zoom
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The Map of Human History

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 22/11/2025 Ă  09:01
You wait an age for a historical Wikipedia map and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of yesterday's post about Landnotes, we can now explore another Wikipedia-sourced map of human history.The Globe of History is an ambitious new interactive map that attempts to visualize the entire sweep of human history - 6,000 years of wars, inventions, discoveries, philosophers, political
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Icons of Tokyo

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 21/11/2025 Ă  18:18
Icons of Tokyo I recently visited the Pictograms exhibition at the Japan Center in London. At the heart of this exhibition were a number of icons designed by the Nippon Design Center, Inc., a renowned Tokyo-based design studio.Today's 30DayMapChallenge theme is Icons, and my first thought was: how could I utilize Nippon Design Center's beautiful Tokyo tourism icons? I
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Your Birthday Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 21/11/2025 Ă  10:13
Landnotes I was born on the very first day of the Dominican Civil War (also known as the April Revolution). Meanwhile, on a completely different continent, Luciano Pavarotti was making his La Scala debut in a revival of La Bohème. Not to brag, but it seems the universe scheduled a pretty dramatic day for my arrival.Over the last twenty years of Maps Mania I’ve seen more Wikipedia maps than I
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Time Traveling with Street View

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 20/11/2025 Ă  10:49
Have you ever wondered what your neighborhood looked like in the 18th century—or even during the Middle Ages? Thanks to Street View and AI, you can now almost find out. TimeJourneyAI is a new application that lets you pick a location in Street View and generate an AI-imagined version of that same spot for any year in history.Liberty 2025rom my limited testing, the historical views
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Mapping the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 19/11/2025 Ă  10:57
Back in 2021, Slate published a very impressive animated map The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes. The map is an incredibly powerful visualization of the massive scale of the transatlantic slave trade, highlighting the trade routes used and the destinations of slave ships over three centuries.Slate’s map includes an interactive timeline that allows you to skip to any year in the
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Winter on Mars

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 18/11/2025 Ă  19:10
Winter on Mars Today's #30DayMapChallenge is to map "something non-Earth". As the holiday season is fast approaching, I therefore decided to create a little Christmas message from Mars? This latest interactive map lets you explore the Martian surface while enjoying a snowfall animation - all from the comfort of your browser. Exploring Mars in Leaflet The map is built using Leaflet,
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Explore Ancient Tenochtitlan in 3D

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 18/11/2025 Ă  09:45
You can now explore the heart of the Aztec world on a huge 3D map. Technical artist Thomas Kole, has released an impressive, immersive 3D Tenochtitlan Viewer that allows anyone to navigate the city as it looked on the eve of Spanish contact. Published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Tenochtitlan’s founding, the interactive model goes far beyond a typical historical map. Instead of
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Make Your Own Ridgeline Plots

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 17/11/2025 Ă  19:12
Joyplot Map Today's #30DayMapChallenge is to use a New Tool (create your map using a software, language, library, or technique you have never used before). For this challenge I decided to build something using Terrain RGB.My Joyplot Map is an interactive map that turns elevation data into ridgeline plots - right in your browser.This map lets you draw a rectangle anywhere on the globe and view
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Mapping Memorials to the Victims of Fascism

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 17/11/2025 Ă  08:47
Memorial Markers is an interactive map showing the locations of memorials to those persecuted or murdered by the Nazi regime in Germany. Originally a Munich-based initiative, the Memorial Markers project is now steadily expanding beyond the Bavarian capital. Munich has installed 317 plaques since 2018, each placed at the last known residence of someone persecuted or murdered by the Nazi
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Conway's Game of Life

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 16/11/2025 Ă  11:04
Conway's Game of Life Today's #30DayMapChallenge is Cell. For this challenge I've created an interactive version of Conway's Game of Life that turns the entire globe into a dynamic cellular automaton.Conway’s Game of Life is a mathematical simulation created by British mathematician John Conway in 1970. It’s not a game in the traditional sense - there’s no winning or losing - but a set of
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Ring of Fire

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 15/11/2025 Ă  18:56
Ring of Fire Today's #30DayMapChallenge is Fire. For this challenge I have created an interactive map with an animated ring of fire.The map itself is just a basic MapLibre GL instance centered on Washington DC. The fire itself is a Canvas element overlaid on top of the map.In this fire animation hundreds of small particles orbit a central point representing the map center. Each particle has
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Take to the Skies in the Battle of Britain

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 15/11/2025 Ă  09:43
When the Luftwaffe comes for Britain, will you be ready? Battle of Britain is a new map-based game that puts you in charge of RAF Fighter Command during one of the most pivotal moments of World War II—inviting you to relive the tension, urgency, and strategic decision-making that defined the summer of 1940.Inspired by classic board and computer games of the 1980s, Battle of Britain challenges
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There Are No Roads in London

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 14/11/2025 Ă  17:30
Streets of London Today's #30DayMapChallenge is to use OpenStreetMap (OSM) data as your primary source.To meet this challenge I decided to use OpenStreetMap data to explore the toponyms of London's streets, visualizing how different road types - Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, and Avenues - are named and distributed across the City of London.One of my favourite quiz questions is - 'How
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A Map of Spain's Mass Graves

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 14/11/2025 Ă  08:58
No matter where you are live in Spain, you’re never more than 50 km from a mass grave of the Spanish Civil War.Spanish broadcaster RTVE has launched The Country of 6,000 Mass Graves, an interactive map documenting the known burial sites from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship. The map documents 6,000 known graves, of people killed during Franco's political repression, of soldiers
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The 10 Minute Map Challenge

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 13/11/2025 Ă  16:33
10 Minute Map Today's #30DayMapChallenge is to create a map in just 10 minutes."The maximum allowed time to design and produce this map is 10 minutes. Focus on speed, simplicity, and core communication".My 10 Minute Map shows how far you can walk in ten minutes from Fenchurch Street Station in London. This station is notorious for having no direct Tube connections. Yet, a number of tube
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Where the World's Billionaires Were Born & Live

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 13/11/2025 Ă  10:00
Billionaire Migration is a fascinating new interactive map that visualizes where the world’s billionaires were born - and where they now live. The map accompanies the research paper Where do billionaires come from and where do they live?, and draws on the International Database on Economic Elites and their Wealth (IDEE Wealth), a new dataset tracking the geography and social characteristics of
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Amtrak 2125

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 12/11/2025 Ă  17:00
Amtrak Maglev Rail 2125 Today's #30DaysMapChallenge, is to create a “Map from 2125” - imagining what maps might look like a century from now. For this challenge I created Amtrak Maglev Rail 2125, a speculative map of the United States showing a network of high-speed maglev rail lines, with moving “trains” that visualize travel in real-time across the country.ConceptThe map simulates a
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The AI GeoGuessr

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 12/11/2025 Ă  08:42
Geospot Infinity is a fascinating experiment in OSINT or AI geolocation. The web app lets you upload a photograph, and in seconds it suggests ten possible locations where the picture might have been taken. The most likely match appears at the top of the list, while the remaining nine give alternative guesses.Built by Surya Dantuluri, Geospot Infinity combines a vision-language model (GeoCLIP)
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A Minimal Flight Tracking Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 11/11/2025 Ă  09:30
Minimal London Day 11 of the #30DayMapChalenge is to create a Minimal Map. For this task my Minimal London flight-tracking map strips away everything but the essentials - a bold black canvas, a clean blue river, crisp white bridges, and the silent drift of planes crossing the city in real-time.đź—ş What the Map ShowsAt its heart, the map visualizes:The River Thames, rendered as a smooth, blue line
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🛩️ Air Snake

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 10/11/2025 Ă  18:18
🛩️ Air Snake – Fly Your Plane, Avoid The Chemtrails Map Snake is a fun new twist on the classic Snake game - except this time, instead of a pixelated reptile, you’re flying a plane across the world, leaving behind a shimmering contrail. The goal is simple: collect map markers to grow your trail, and whatever you do - don’t fly into your own chemtrails!You can play the game right in your
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American Business is All at Sea

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 10/11/2025 Ă  09:57
This is a map by Joseph El Haddad that shows businesses which Google Maps shows as being located in the sea. In other words it is a map of misplaced businesses due to geolocation and data entry errors. The Distribution of Businesses Located at Sea map shows tens of thousands of wrongly mapped businesses and provides a glimpse into how data entry mistakes ripple across the web’s most popular
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A Pencil Style for Maplibre

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 09/11/2025 Ă  09:50
Pencil Style vs Positron Day 9 of the #30DayMapChallenge is Analog. I have no artistic talent whatsoever so I decided to cheat a little and take this as a challenge to create a hand-drawn (analog) style map using digital tools.A Journey from Positron to Hand-Drawn CharmIt is possible to create custom map styles for Maplibre with Maputnik. So using Maputnik I decided to try to transform
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Road Orientations Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 08/11/2025 Ă  18:11
Road Orientations Map The topic for day 8 of the #30DayMapChallenge is Urban. For this challenge I decided to go old-school and convert Vladimir Agafonkin's original Road Orientations from Mapbox to Maplibre. The original code analyzes street orientations and visualizes them as a polar histogram. I've just adapted Vladimir’s approach to work with MapLibre GL JS.What the Map ShowsThe
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Unpave Parking Lots, Put Up a Paradise

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 08/11/2025 Ă  08:10
P2T Parking to Tree is an arcade-style map game designed to encourage players to participate in a form of urban greening.The mission is simple: Turn parking spaces into trees across Berlin and help the city achieve its ambitious goal of planting a million trees by 2040. You've got 60 seconds on the clock!The game drops you onto a real-world map of Berlin, challenging you to convert designated
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The Roman Britain Travel Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 07/11/2025 Ă  19:41
The theme for day seven of the #30DayMapChallenge is Accessibility. For this challenge I decided to visualize travel times in Roman Britain.My Roman Britain Travel Map allows you to see how far it was possible to travel along Roman roads in Britain on foot in one to five day periods.The Roman Britain Travel Map visualizes the vast network of Roman roads that crisscrossed Britain nearly
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Do You Live in a 15 Minute City?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 07/11/2025 Ă  11:30
The urban planning concept of the 15-Minute City has become one of the most important ideas in modern urbanism. The goal is simple: to design neighborhoods where residents can access all their essential needs - such as shopping, education, healthcare, transport, and leisure - within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their home. This philosophy aims to create more sustainable, equitable, and
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The 3D Flight Tracker

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 06/11/2025 Ă  08:29
We are all familiar with live flight tracking maps, like Flightradar24, adsbexchange and FlightAware, that show planes moving in real time on top of a 2D map. These services let us see where aircraft are flying, where they’re headed, and where they have come from - all on an interactive map. But what if you could actually see those planes move through the air in three dimensions,
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New York Mayoral Election Maps

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 05/11/2025 Ă  10:10
A number of elections took place yesterday, but by far the most talked-about was the race for New York City mayor - where Zohran Mamdani emerged victorious, securing over 50% of the vote.According to The New York Times’ interactive map, The Most Detailed Map of the N.Y.C. Mayoral Election (paywalled), Mamdani dominated in much of the city, outpacing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a wide
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140 Million Years on Earth

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 05/11/2025 Ă  08:31
Earth Coastlines Through Time The theme for day five of the #30DayMapChallenge is Earth. What better way to explore this theme than to map how the Earth's land masses have shifted, collided, and drifted apart over geological time?My Earth Coastlines Through Time map lets you see how Earth’s coastlines and continents have shifted voer 140 million years, from the Early Cretaceous period to
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Organic Maps - Personal Data

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 04/11/2025 Ă  08:20
GPX Track Viewer The theme for day four of the #30DayMapChallenge is Data challenge: My Data. I don't have a lot of personal data that I want to share - so for this challenge I decided to tell you about how I track my daily 10,000 steps. I don't want to share my location data with private companies like Google, Apple or Fitbit. I therefore use Organic Maps to record my daily walks and my
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Tweening Map Projections

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 03/11/2025 Ă  09:19
World Map Projections The theme for day three of the #30DayMapChallenge is Polygons. For this theme I've created a map that visualizes a map of the world using five different map projections.Maps shape how we see the world. Depending on the projection used, continents and countries can appear stretched, squashed, or rotated in surprising ways. This interactive map lets you explore five
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Lines of Population

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 02/11/2025 Ă  08:08
County StripesPopulation Density Shown as Longitude and Latitude Stripes  đź—şď¸Ź County Stripes – Exploring America’s Data in Stripes The theme for the second day of the #30DayMapChallenge is Lines. For this theme I've created a map that colors longitude and latitude lines based on population density.County Stripes is an interactive map that visualizes U.S. county data not just by county
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Bars vs Baskets

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 01/11/2025 Ă  07:37
Today marks the first day of the 2025 #30DayMapChallenge. The theme for day one is:Points - Map with point data (e.g., individual locations, points of interest, clusters). Focus on effective symbolization and density visualization. đź—şď¸Ź Bars vs Baskets: Mapping the Balance Between Nightlife and NecessitiesFor my Day 1 entry, I've created Bars vs Baskets, an interactive map that compares the
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The Working Class Heroes Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 31/10/2025 Ă  08:08
Working Class History Map Yesterday I posted links to a number of history maps. One thing that all those maps have in common is that they mostly document the actions of empires, wars, borders, and elite figures - the traditional historical narratives written by and for those in power. What these maps largely omit are the stories of the working class heroes who have struggled and fought for
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What's Missing from Human History?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 30/10/2025 Ă  09:20
The Globe of History is a new interactive map that recounts 6,000 years of human events. In fact, not only does it recount history - it reinterprets it as well.For example, it reveals that what most historians have considered one of the most revolutionary and significant periods in human history was, in fact, a new dark age. That’s right - according to The Globe of History, only one significant
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Preparing for the #30DayMapChallenge

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 29/10/2025 Ă  07:44
Are you ready for the #30DayMapChallenge? It starts this Saturday!If you’re new to it, the idea of the #30DayMapChallenge is very simple: create a map every day for 30 days, following a different theme each day. You can use any data, any tools, and any style you like. It’s a great way to experiment, learn new techniques, and connect with the global mapping community.Despite spending most of my
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The Most Distressed Communities in the USA

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 28/10/2025 Ă  09:07
15.4% of the United States population lives in a distressed area. You can find out if you are one of them on the 2025 DCI Interactive Map.The Distressed Communities Index uses seven different metrics to rank every ZIP code area in the country. These indicators are:No High School Diploma - number of residents without a high school diplomaHousing Vacancy Rate - share of habitable housing that is
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Watch the USA Grow, State by State

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 27/10/2025 Ă  07:48
The Library of Congress has launched a new animated map, The United States at a Glance, that lets you literally watch the nation growAt its core, the map is a powerful educational resource, allowing you to click on any point to access the foundational legal documents that established, admitted, or incorporated that state or territory. Much of the legal content is drawn from the Library’s massive
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The New Multi-Player Geo-Guessing Game!

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 25/10/2025 Ă  08:52
Introducing GeoBoxLast year, I collaborated with TripGeo to release Backdrop, a geo-guessing art game that challenges players to identify the real-world locations depicted in famous works of art. Backdrop is a simple yet highly addictive game - and now, thanks to TripGeo, it’s even better with the launch of Multiplayer Backdrop.With GeoGallery, you’ll still test your geographical art knowledge -
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The Destruction of American Democracy

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 25/10/2025 Ă  00:20
Thanks to Soar you can watch the destruction of American democracy in near real-time. The animated GIF above shows satellite imagery from before and after Trump's illegal demolition of the East Wing of the White House. The republic that built a White House of reason and restraint is now being demolished by its would-be king. Only one man could believe that the neoclassical and Palladian
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A 3D View of Our Warming Seas

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 24/10/2025 Ă  08:14
An impressive new 3D globe visualization allows you to explore how the oceans are warming day by day. The Global Sea Surface Temperature map displays daily ocean temperatures and anomalies - how much warmer or cooler each part of the ocean is compared to its long-term average - on an interactive, animated globe.Built by Gary Oberbrunner, this visualization draws on daily global ocean temperature
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The Glasses Free 3D Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 23/10/2025 Ă  08:37
This morning I found a link on Hacker News to a glasses-free 3D webpage. This Dragon Courtyard demo uses your device's webcam to track your head motion and then applies motion parallax to make it feel like you're looking through a window into a 3D scene.I decided to see if the same approach could be applied to a 3D map. The result is this Head Tracked 3D Map.The concept is simple and reasonably
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A Divided Map of America’s Overdose Crisis

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 22/10/2025 Ă  08:36
In Overdose in America The Guardian reports that drug overdose death rates in the United States are falling across most of the country. According to The Guardian's report overdose death rates have fallen nationally since 2023 mainly because of wider access to naloxone, expanded treatment options and a decline in fentanyl availability and purity in parts of the country.However, The Guardian also
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County Stripes

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 21/10/2025 Ă  08:54
County Stripes I was reading the comments on a time-lapse map of power outages in the US posted on Reddit yesterday. Many of the comments focused on the sizes of U.S. counties, particularly noting how counties appear to get noticeably larger as you travel westward across the country.I therefore decided to take a closer look at the size of U.S. counties across the country, carrying out some
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A 65,000-Year History Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 20/10/2025 Ă  09:14
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has attempted to tell the 65,000-year history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Its Deep Time project brings to the fore the stories of Country from First Nations knowledge holders. The project combines modern scientific understanding of the Oceania region with the traditional knowledge and culture of the peoples who have
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No Kings, No Tyrants & No Dictators

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 18/10/2025 Ă  10:19
The No Kings interactive map is not particularly interesting in itself - except as a visualization of the huge geographic sweep of anti-Trump sentiment in the United States. The map is ostensibly just a simple interactive map that shows you the locations of today's protests against the escalating authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration in the United States.As well as showing the
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Bird Migrations in a Warming World

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 17/10/2025 Ă  09:15
The Guardian has published a report exploring how global warming is affecting the natural migration patterns of different bird species. The article Bird Migration Is Changing is beautifully illustrated with a number of impressive animated maps.My favorite of these mapped illustrations tracks the path of a storm-chasing seabird, the Desertas petrel. The Desertas petrel spends almost all its life
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America - Then & Now

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 16/10/2025 Ă  08:46
The Library of Congress Street View Explorer allows you to view vintage photographs side-by-side with their corresponding modern Google Street View panoramas, letting you explore how America has changed (or not) over time.Matt Miller created the Explorer by carrying out a textual analysis of the approximately 95,000 comments on the LOC Flickr account, which includes over 40,000
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How to Create a Birdsong Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 15/10/2025 Ă  08:54
Diario SUR has created an interactive that allows you to listen to Málaga birds singing directly from a map. Mouseover any of the markers on This is how Málaga sings and you can listen to a sound recording of a Málaga bird species submitted by users of the website Xeno-Canto.Xeno-Canto is a community-driven online
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Which NYC Neighborhood Do You Live In?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 14/10/2025 Ă  07:26
Is it NYC? allows you to discover which New York neighborhood most resembles your hometown. Simply enter your location into Is It NYC? and instantly discover if you're living in a trendy, SoHo-like area or a leafy, outer-borough haven like Forest Hills.Cosine SimilarityAt its core, Is It NYC? is an exercise in geospatial data analysis and similarity matching. Behind the curtain, the map
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Drowning Cities in 3D

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 13/10/2025 Ă  06:38
The Sea Level Rise 3D Map is a very effective visualization of the possible effects of rising sea levels. The map uses Google's 3D Maps API with deck.gl and three.js to create a very realistic demonstration of how locations around the world could be impacted by different levels of sea level rise.The map was created by combining Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles with a custom Three.js water
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Stories of Displacement & Return

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 11/10/2025 Ă  08:32
Journeys of Resilience of Refugees from Ukraine is an interactive map tracking the movements of refugees from Ukraine amidst the ongoing war. Created for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), the map captures both the immense scale of forced migration and the stories of return and resilience that continue to unfold.Since Russia’s invasion, around 11 million Ukrainians
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How much for a house like this?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 10/10/2025 Ă  16:30
How good are you at guessing the value of a house based purely on its curb appeal? Well, now you can find out with my new daily challenge Street View game - Curb Value.Each day, Curb Value loads a new set of real homes currently on the market. For every property, you’re shown a static Street View image, a frozen snapshot of the house captured by Google’s cameras. Based on what you see from the
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How Big was the Roman Empire?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 10/10/2025 Ă  07:32
TrueSize.net is an interactive map that allows you to compare the true size of countries and regions around the world. You’ve probably played with 'true size' maps before but TrueSize.net goes far beyond other 'true size' maps - t’s a fully fledged platform for exploring the real scale of countries, regions, and even historical empires.Unlike most 'true size' maps that focus solely on modern
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30 Day Map Challenge

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 09/10/2025 Ă  07:19
November’s 30DayMapChallenge is fast approaching - and the daily themes for this year’s event have just been released!The #30DayMapChallenge is an annual, community-driven event that brings together mapmakers from all over the world. Started by Topi Tjukanov in 2019, it’s become a global celebration of cartography, creativity, and data visualization. Each day in November, participants
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India Rules the World Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 08/10/2025 Ă  08:41
This animated cartogram resizes countries around the world according to their annual number of births.In this “natal map” of the world, India appears as the largest country, with over 23 million babies born each year - roughly equivalent to the entire population of a country such as Chile (about 20 million people). China, with 9.54 million births per year, and Nigeria, with 7.51 million births
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Four Ways to Destroy the Earth

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 07/10/2025 Ă  07:23
Project Impact is an interactive asteroid-impact simulator that lets you drop different sized asteroids on the cities of your choice - and observe how they could be destroyed. Alongside the simulation, you can also learn about the mitigation strategies used to detect and deflect hazardous near-Earth objects, and even test your defense skills by taking command of Planetary Defense Command in a
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Mapping Russia's Attack on Europe

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 06/10/2025 Ă  09:22
Each symbol on this interactive map represents an attempt by the Russian state to destabilize European democracy. The map visualizes Russia’s hybrid warfare against the West, which involves tactics as diverse as cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, physical sabotage, and even possible assassinations — actions that might seem minor in isolation but form part of a broader strategy to undermine
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The School Lines That Divide US

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 04/10/2025 Ă  09:54
New America has released an interactive map that reveals how the boundaries of U.S. school districts could be redrawn to create a fairer education system for all students.In most states, school district lines determine which local property taxes fund which schools. This means that children in affluent areas often benefit from far more school funding than those in nearby districts with lower
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The Atlas of American Gun Violence

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 03/10/2025 Ă  07:42
The Trace's An Atlas of American Gun Violence is an interactive map that uses data from the Gun Violence Archive to visualize gun homicides and assaults across the contiguous United States.The map has drawn a fair amount of criticism on the MapPorn subreddit, with many dismissing it as “just a population density map.” I think this criticism is somewhat unfair.  If you were to zoom
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European Death Zones

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 02/10/2025 Ă  07:11
Tages-Anzeiger’s data team has published a striking interactive map that visualizes one of Europe’s most profound demographic challenges: in most of the continent's regions, more people are now dying than are being born.In Europe is becoming a “net death zone”: What the future would look like without immigration the newspaper uses regional data from Eurostat and national statistics offices
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The World is Your Canvas with PaintMyMap

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 01/10/2025 Ă  08:12
Creating a truly beautiful and customized map can be a frustrating experience, requiring either expensive software or deep coding knowledge. Enter PaintMyMap, a new online custom map maker that lets anyone - from educators to professionals - design, style, and export custom maps in minutes, and all for free.What is PaintMyMap?PaintMyMap is an intuitive web-based editor designed to simplify
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